Internet Censorship

Indecency in regard to information posted on the internet has become much of a public debate that presently has no declaration in sight. There is a superior argument as to whether or not decency is a stipulation for the purposes of maintaining a particular ethical standard. In the past few years; Internet has extended the capacities of the regular person to get information on an international scale. As the internet sector expands and grows nearly daily, new issues of decency and liberty in expression are going higher. Issues like the revelation of pornography to children and censoring of content to students have brought about numerous arguments.

Furthermore, it is hard to supervise children all the time. For this reason, there should be a way of censoring content which is available on the Internet. Moreover, Internet ought not to be a place where kids can have an easy entrant to sexually elucidated material. Therefore, the internet ought to also have a way of ensuring decency on content which is not suitable for children.

On the other hand, Internet censorship seems to discourage entrepreneurship; for example, it is hard to approximate the number of entrepreneurs in china who need to access websites and information which is obstructed by the Great Firewall. This inefficiency is costly to countries particularly in the region of home-grown innovation. Absence of innovation derives partly from entrepreneur’s lack of knowledge concerning newest trends, something which is brought about by the blocked censored nature of some websites. Therefore, one can clearly see that currently, there is an imbalance in Internet censorship because the authorities seem to overlook some factors when undertaking the censorship.

This century is the finest of times and the pits of times for Internet. It is also the worst and best of times for the liberties the Internet is presumed to nurture. This is because of the fact that there are a large number of various groups of Internet users most of whom ought directions on the right way of using the technology. The groups include children and teenagers who spend most of their time accessing various sites most of which are not recommended at their age. Therefore, there is a need for Internet censorship if the world is to have a community of well-nurtured youths. Even so, there should be a fair balance between the Internet users and those bureaus which are concerned with decency laws on the Internet.